DefectDojo
A security team running five different scanners (one for containers, one for code, one for dependencies...) ends up with five different spreadsheets of findings, half of them duplicates. DefectDojo pulls all of that into one place, removes the duplicates,
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Description
Modern application security means running a whole stack of specialized scanners — one for your code (SAST), one for running apps (DAST), one for container images, one for dependencies — and each one produces its own report in its own format. Without something to consolidate them, a security team ends up manually reading through five separate tools' outputs, often flagging the same underlying bug three different times. DefectDojo is that consolidation layer: think of it as the inbox that collects mail from every different courier service into one sorted stack, instead of you checking five separate mailboxes.
DefectDojo is an open-source (BSD 3-Clause) vulnerability management and application security posture management (ASPM) platform that ingests results from over 500 different security tools, automatically deduplicates overlapping findings, and provides a unified dashboard for triage and reporting, including compliance mappings (PCI-DSS, the EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act). The free Community Edition covers the core aggregation and deduplication workflow; DefectDojo Pro (SaaS or self-hosted) adds risk-based prioritization, a customizable rules engine, AI-assisted vulnerability analysis, and expanded dashboards, with expert support.
💬 Our review
The short version: DefectDojo is close to the default choice once a team is running more than two or three security scanners and needs one place to see all the findings — it's mature (4,900+ stars, tens of millions of downloads), free at its core, and the 500+ integration list means it almost certainly already supports whatever tools you're running.
The deduplication logic is the feature that actually saves the most time: without it, the same vulnerability flagged by both a SAST tool and a container scanner shows up as two separate tickets, doubling triage work for no reason. Community Edition alone is enough for a team that just wants aggregation and a shared dashboard; the jump to Pro is specifically for teams that want automated prioritization (which findings matter most, not just which exist) and don't want to build that logic themselves.
The honest limits: DefectDojo is infrastructure you configure and maintain — it aggregates other tools' output, it doesn't scan anything itself, so it adds no value until you already have scanners feeding it. It's also a fairly deep, admin-heavy tool; expect a real setup investment to wire up integrations and dedup rules correctly before it pays off. For a small team with one or two scanners, the overhead may exceed the benefit; for anyone juggling a real multi-scanner AppSec stack, it's a well-proven, low-risk pick — and the free Community Edition is a reasonable place to start before deciding whether Pro's prioritization features are worth paying for.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Community Edition open source (licence BSD 3-Clause), gratuite. DefectDojo Pro payant (SaaS ou auto-hébergé), tarifs sur devis.
Pros
Projet mature et très adopté (4900+ étoiles GitHub, 38M+ téléchargements)
Intègre plus de 500 outils de sécurité différents, normalise et déduplique les résultats
Community Edition gratuite et open source (BSD 3-Clause) suffisante pour l'agrégation de base
Mapping de conformité intégré (PCI-DSS, EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act)
Cons
N'analyse rien lui-même — n'apporte de valeur qu'une fois des scanners déjà en place pour l'alimenter
Configuration et administration relativement lourdes pour bien câbler intégrations et règles de dédoublonnage
Fonctionnalités avancées de priorisation par le risque réservées au palier payant Pro